Posted by George Marsh on October 13, 2012 at 04:12:38 from (50.104.232.125):
I have a total electric home. Looking for ideas of back up heat source. I can't stand torpedo k 1 heaters, they give me a headache. Tried using a IR propane heater, headache.
Is there a portable heater that I could send the exhaust out the window? My concern is to keep things warm enough to keep pipes from freezing.
I estimate the cost to generate electricity is about a dime to a dollar. It would cost about a dollar in gas to produce a dime's worth of electricity. It may not be that bad, but generating electricity with gas is expensive. Not to mention, if I lost electricity, I would have to have many gallons of gas to run generator for a day. However, electric heat doesn't give me a headache, unless I try to run the generator inside the house. Joke intended, OK. Wish someone made a generator that safely extracted the heat from the exhaust. I remember the old air cooled VW's sent the exhaust through a heat exchanger. It took 10 miles to warm up the car. Defroster was an ice scraper and a rag.
I was reading that k-1 fuel has a 6 month shelf life. Is this true? Gas has a shelf life too. Propane doesn't have a shelf life, but the cost per pound for the small tanks makes propane expensive too.
Just exploring ideas. What's your idea of back up heat. Don't have a fire place, don't want wood heat, don't want a headache.
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